Frank Marshall Davis, who mentored young Barack Obama during his formative years in Hawaii

Davis, a journalist and polemicist, was a hard-core communist and Soviet sympathizer who displayed a hatred for Western leaders focused on thwarting Soviet expansionism during the Cold War

It is interesting that such a fascinating and provocative bit of the president’s history should be so blithely skipped over by the mainstream media in its pursuit of the president’s background and the ideological pathway he followed in becoming who he is.

Certainly, if a Republican president had youthful associations that suggested he ventured beyond the American mainstream into radicalism of the right, the media would be all over that. [link to nationalinterest.org]